Hillary Clinton Called Trump a Creep in Her Book

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After requesting the IP address of every visitor to a website used to organize inauguration day anti-Trump protests, the Department of Justice has narrowed its request. The Department of Justice demanded website host DreamHost hand over each of the 1.3 million IP addresses of visitors to its site DisruptJ20.org, after the site was reportedly used to organize protests on inauguration day. DreamHost revealed the government wanted the addresses in order to identify those involved in organizing the protests, particularly after multiple people were charged with inciting a riot as a result of the protests. Now the government has noted it no longer wants the IP address of every visitor, just those involved in organizing the anti-Trump protests. DreamHost appears to have called the narrower scope a win for Internet privacy, according to a blog post on the site, but it still plans to fight the government's request. Get more information from Fortune.

In a newly released excerpt from her book, Hillary Clinton calls Trump a creep. In a passage addressing the infamous debate moment in which Trump loomed behind Clinton as she made her point, Clinton wrote that she didn't know whether she should continue on with her speech or address Trump's behavior. “Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren’t repeatedly invading your space? Or do you turn, look him in the eye, and say loudly and clearly, ‘back up you creep. Get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women, but you can’t intimidate me so back up,'” she wrote in the excerpt released on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday. Read more from Variety.

ESPN broadcaster Robert Lee will not be on for the University of Virginia football season opener on September 2 because of his name. ESPN reportedly pulled Lee from the UVA game after the removal of a statue to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee seemingly sparked white nationalist violence in Charlottesville. According to CBS News, a spokeswoman for ESPN said Lee was pulled from the game "simply because of the coincidence of his name." Get the full story from CBS News.

Reports say that the United States allegedly has thousands more troops on the ground in Afghanistan than it's willing to admit. According to the Pentagon, the U.S. has 8,400 troops on the ground in Afghanistan, but NBC News reports that unnamed Pentagon officials say that the actual number of troops is closer to 11,000 or 12,000. While 8,448 is currently the maximum number of authorized troops, including soldiers who are transitioning in or out of Afghanistan or on temporary duty shorter than 120 days, the NBC News report suggests the actual number of troops is much higher. Read more from NBC News.

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Senate investigators had a private meeting with a researcher behind the Trump dossier, an unverified report that alleges Trump has a long-standing relationship with Russia and that Russia has compromising details about the President. Senate Judiciary Committee staff met with Glenn Simpson, a former reporter who helped found Fusion GPS, a private investigation firm, on Tuesday to discuss the dossier his firm commissioned on Trump. The committee is reportedly seeking more information on the report and the forces behind it. Read more from NPR.

During his rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, Trump indicated a former Arizona sheriff facing jail time should "feel fine," alluding to a pardon. Trump stopped short of pardoning former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted on criminal contempt charges after he reportedly continued enforcing immigration detention policies a court had ordered him to stop. "Was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job? He should have had a jury, but I'll make a prediction: I think he's going to be just fine. I'm not going to do it tonight because I don't want to cause any controversy...but he should feel fine," Trump said. See more from BuzzFeed News.

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